Steemit Open Mic Week 146 Winners - See Who Won Open Mic And Join Us This WeeksteemCreated with Sketch.

Thanks to everyone who entered and supported Open Mic Week 146. Community support for Open Mic has been tremendous and is one of many projects bringing the music community together on Steemit.

NOTICE TO THE OPENMIC COMMUNITY : The Minnow Support Project is launching a token called PALcoin. When you add the tag palnet to your openmic entry you will receive PalCoin for your entry as well as Steem. Please continue to use the openmic tag as the first tag, just add palnet too and get free coins that are redeemable for upvotes.

@Curie helps curate new people who contribute good content and has been supporting Open Mic musicians behind the scenes since Open Mic started. They helped me and countless others get our posts seen when we first started on the platform. Many Open Mic musicians have been featured on their weekly Author's Showcase posts. They are a top 20 witness and have contributed 25 Steem per week for the next two months to help Open Mic. You can vote for them as witness here

MSP-Waves Radio in association with the Minnow Support Project and the Peace, Abundance, Liberty Network is a weekly radio program hosted by @Krystle, @swelker101, and @isaria that features the weekly Top 5 judges picks from Steemit Open Mic. Not only do they give weekly prizes to audience picked performers from the contest, but they have also started sponsoring Open Mic with a 25 Steem weekly donation! How cool is that? Thank you for helping support musicians on the Steemit platform.

Helpie is an invite only thriving community of Steemians supporting Steemians. They sponsor lots of different projects and initiatives. If you would like to be considered as a Helpie "minnow in training," please consider joining PALnet/MSP and participating in the community. We have scouts constantly looking for the right minnows to support, and they will reach out with a private invitation.

Big shout out to @lukestokes who delegated 5,000 SP to the @openmic account! Thanks for your support.

I just want to remind everyone that votes are only part of the selection process. Entertainment value and performance is factored in too.

The coolest thing about Open Mic is it brings the Steemit community together and that is the whole point of this project.

Meet up with the Open Mic community at Open Mic on Discord and chat with all of the people who enter Open Mic there. It's a great way to interact with the Open Mic community. Your links to your entry is automatically added to the Discord channel, so please don't add links, just come to chat with the community.

Special thanks to @verbal-d and @krystle for help judging the contest this week. Great job.

Steemit Open Mic is not about winning or losing, it's about building a connections on Steemit through music. Watching the collaborations happen online between musicians who played and met on Steemit Open Mic is very rewarding and many of the people who play and post earn some nice rewards for playing a song.

For many, it's easier to get some Steem in your tip jar by playing for Steemit Open Mic than it is to play music on the street.

Steemit Open Mic Trending Posts

Top 20 Trending Open Mic Posts

NOTE:Having a trending post is not how judges pick entries for their Top 5 weekly picks. Sometimes you will trend because of a variety of reasons. Congratulations! You don't need to win Open Mic to earn rewards and build your audience. As you can see, sometimes trending posts earn more than the contest rewards! You could trend by getting curated by other curation groups like @curie for example. The judges look for entertainment value which, of course, is very subjective and varies over time. Just keep playing and engaging with the community which is the whole point of Open Mic. If you love music, we love you.

The most recent top earning posts were:

This chart is provided by @geekgirl.NOTE: openmic must be the first tag to show up on this chart

and the winners are...

1st Place

You won 40 Steem

Many people in this world are asleep, not knowing what they've sown they will reap, then maybe in the end they will weep, when the wind of death, their feet, it does sweeps... Your song is beyond 6 feet deep, the tension and self reflection and sombreness creep, and the souls that are lost pile up in a heap. Love can make us believe many things, allowing us to risk anything and everything, but it leaves many with a broken heart, bleeding red back and forth as a cherry swing. Drowning underwater in the shipwreck where you can barely breathe. The physical body hard at work to survive with aching bones, worn muscles and tearing sleeves. This original song of yours is one of my favourites, my poetic response is what I make of it, your singing is sublime, your playing is seasoned as thyme, you capture moments between time, and your emotions crumble the blurring lines. - @verbal-d

2nd Place

You won 20 Steem

You sang this song with a lot of passion, it gave my ears much satisfaction, although I wished the volume of your entry was higher by many fractions, so we can all enjoy the beauty of your performance as it happens. I checked out the lyric translation, such is the battle of love relations, people get hurt, broken hearts are left gaping, and the future they built together ends up badly mishapen. You played the guitar well, and conviction you sell, your singing was the highlight in this story you tell. This entry you definitely nailed. - @verbal-d

Wow man I really enjoyed this performance so very much, you conveyed so much raw emotion - just a perfect performance of someone truly connected to the lyrics and meaning of the song, taking it to a pure place of beauty.

Your playing is just spot on, I haven't heard a single misplaced note - but you have also created a lot of movement and tempo changes throughout, adding to the complexity of the song and awesomeness of the overall performance.

Then there is your vocals, where you display amazing control over your range and the emotion conveyed through the tone and delivery - adding more with vocal gymnastics that act to enhance and entice, I was just hooked from the instant I heard it. - @krystle

3rd Place

You won 13 Steem

Beauty, although vain, is socially scalable, the soul, mind and heart aren't easily changeable, and our physical vessels we have been given are fragile and breakable, many feel alone, unworthy and un-datable, comparing ourselves to others who outwardly seem more favourable, our love for ourselves should be way stable, and the impact we make on others can be unmistakably traceable. Inadequacy can make you feel incapable, but realize that you are yourself unique and irreplaceable, your goals and dreams are attainable, and doors of opportunity and happiness are available. Our fears can either decimate or disintegrate all things as biodegradable. Bad memories aren't erasable but our hopes and confidence are definitely raise-able. Wisdom is not based on only things vocational, but what you can pull from within knowing yourself, is obtainable. Your entry and original song was sensational. - @verbal-d

I have been stoked when getting your entries of late, they have been so varied and unique - yet I am starting to get a feel for the type of artist you are and I have to say that I really hope you have a heap more songs stashed away.

I totally agree performing your own music is something that's really intense, on an emotional level just putting yourself out there - let alone the physical one if your like me and even when at home recording I still get nervous lol.

You're music is perfectly styled to accentuate your truly stunning vocals, they are just so crisp and clean - pure even... it adds an almost angelic/harmonic feel to the songs and make them feel even more unreal, just absolutely brilliant and hope to see more soon! - @krystle

4th Place

You won 13 Steem

Your originals are full of wonder, a maze of ponderances for fools to wander, submersing us in poetic arts that just pull us under, the pools rush asunder, dual lusts of plunder, duels bust from hunters, rural jungle hunger, tusks of thunder, luscious suns ablaze above earth. You have a certain level of performance that can only be acquired naturally, your happiness, passion and content to share the gift of music comes sporadically, you inspire us as you are inspired in the moments that grip you drastically, and you ease into every song’s rhythm and map it with mastery. This entry is wonderfully executed, and far from a catastrophe. - @verbal-d

Your playing as always is spectacular, I don't believe I have ever heard you miss a note - and you do it all with such calm and grace, its refreshing and always entertaining to watch.

Then as always your brilliant vocals, you have a fantastic vocal range and control - you enhance songs by adding texture throughout and variety in your methods of delivery, choosing moments and emotions within the song to extend further.

Just an all round awesome performance, with amazing vocal variety and flare - love your work as always - @krystle

5th Place

You won 13 Steem

Like water can your voice flow and fill the voids, we are indeed obligated, our duty as we’re employed, given the jobs to keep our earth pure and our waters clean with joy, songs like these are a gentle reminder, and do not annoy. We are the army of God’s people, the last convoy, the planet is not to be played with, it is not our toy. The next species lost could be in the air, on land, or even the fish in the sea, the Coy. We have to prevent with more strategies, tactics, methods and ploys. Is it harder to create and much easier to destroy, so we must teach the youth, every attentive girl and boy. Your beautiful voice shall reach the hearts and minds of our generations, this original is heartfelt and should be shared without hesitation. As we speak there are plastic landmasses in the ocean, toxic spills in the waters, and decaying life forms without motion. This song is a wake up call and more than a mere soft notion, that change requires action and right choices, much more than just wishful thinking and hopin’... - @verbal-d

Here's a screenshot of the rewards transferred to the winners this week.

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Connect With The Music Community On Steemit

Helpie is an invite only thriving community of Steemians supporting Steemians. They sponsor lots of different projects and initiatives. If you would like to be considered as a Helpie "minnow in training," please consider joining PALnet/MSP and participating in the community. We have scouts constantly looking for the right minnows to support, and they will reach out with a private invitation.

@steemcreative is a witness run by @swelker101 and @isaria and they host a weekly program with @krystle at MSP-Waves radio that features the weekly Top 5 judges picks from Steemit Open Mic. Not only do they give weekly prizes to audience picked performers from the contest, but they have also started sponsoring Open Mic with a 25 Steem weekly donation! How cool is that? Thank you for helping support musicians on the Steemit platform.

Each Wednesday night 10-pm Eastern Time you can tune into mspwaves.com and hear interviews, recordings, and live performances from Steemian songwritersDrill down into the craft of songwriting and connect with the artists behind the music Get into MSP/PALNET and become part of our amazing powerful community.

A weekly musical contest. Are you a singer? This is the perfect place. Do you make rap? Come and participate. Are you an instrument performer? Hosted by @d-vine, Go see the latest Pitch Perfect post to get involved.

This is open to any kind of music performer in any genre. You can be original if you wish, or you can interpret a song already created, what is sought in this contest is the passion with which you make your presentation, captivate with your interpretation and of course have fun.

DSound is like SoundCloud only decentralized on the Steem blockchain. Artists can upload their works and hear others music, connect with other artists and earn rewards from community votes. DSound is created by @prc

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